Emergency bearing for railway cars



F. IVIEHLIS.

EMERGENCY BEARING FOR RAILWAY CARS.

' APPLICATION FiLED DEC.28, 1921.

Patented my 111, 1922 .Cz IHI/EIZZIUFI FERDINAND NEEI-ILIS, OF BERLIN-BUCHHOLZ, GERMANY.

EMERGENCY BEARING FOR RAILWAY CABS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July llfl, 1922.

Application filed December 28, 1921. Serial No. 525,440}.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, FERDINAND lvlEHLIS, a citizen of the German Republic, and resident of Berlin-Buchholz, Germany, have invented a certain new and useful Improved emergency bearing for railway cars adapted for use as a substitute for axle boxes of railway cars, oi which the following is specification.

In the case of railway-collisions, derail ments of whole trains or merely single cars (which latter occurrences happen frequently upon shunting depots), and the like, longer interruptions of service are caused espe cially by the pedestal horns and the axle boxes of the cars being broken whereby removing the damaged cars from the place of accident is made very difiicult owing to the impossibility of supporting the car bodies by the car-axles. Clearing the tracks requires, thus, much time which is another disagreeable consequence of an accident of the one or the other kind.

The emergency-bearing forming the subject matter of this invention is intended as a provisional substitute for a broken axleearing and permits of supporting the carbody by the axle-journals. It allows of a convenient and quick connection with the bearingor supporting springs of the car. These springs, the axles, and the wheels, remain in most cases undamaged, and it is then, with aid of the novel emergency bearing, possible to quickly remove the damaged cars from the rails and clear the tracks.

My invention is illustrated in the accom panying drawing, in which Figure l is a side-view of a railway-car axle-bearing provided with an emergency bearing in lieu of the original axle-box; Figure 1 is a detached view and shows the emergency-bearing alone; Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section through the parts shown in Figure 1; Figure 2 is a transverse section through the parts shown in Figure 1; and Figure 3 is a plan of the Same parts.

The emergency-bearing is made of mallea ble cast-iron or band-steel or another suitable metal and consists of one piece bent into a certain shape, viz: its middle part forms an inverted U a, the legs a a of which are integral with upwardly extending legs 5 6 having at their upper ends horizontal extensions or flanges 0 0 middle part a corresponds to the diameter of the axlejournal, the flanges c 0 serve for connecting the emergency-bearing with the springs, and the vertical legs Z2 6 are the carrying parts proper which transfer the weight of the car to the axle journals.

Connecting the parts 0 c with the springs may be effected in various manners. In the form of construction shown as an example, the parts 0 0 have downwardly bent thickened ends (Z (Z and between these latter and the vertical parts 6 5 lie horizontal transverse plates, viz one of a pair of plates 6 6 and one of a pair of plates 6 6 The other plate 01: each pair lies upon the bearing-springs f and the two associate plates are connected with each other by bolts and g The length of the U-legs a a is such that the emergencybearing cannot jump' or? the axle-journals. i is an oilhole in the curved middle part of the U, f is the spring buckle, and f the known downward extension of this latter. The curved part of the U may have oil-grooves to be fed from the oil-hole, as shown in Figure 3, and, if desired, an oil-cup may be placed upon that hole. The complete emergency bearing as thown in Figures 1, 2, and 3, has all its parts assembled. To apply it, only one of the bolts 9 and one of the bolts need be removed when the bearing may be laterally shoved over the springs and then firmly con nected with them by means of the removed bolts g 9 Having now described my invent-ion, what I desire to secure by a patent of the United States is:

1. An emergency bearing for railway cars, comprising, in combination, a structure consisting of a middle part forming an inverted U, extending upwards from the sides of said middle part, and horizontal flanges extending from the upper ends of s id legs to opposite directions; and means for affixing said structure to the bearing-springs oi a railway car.

The semi-circular 2. An emergency bearing for railway cars, and above the bearing springs of a railway comprising, in combination, a structure concar, and four pairs of bolts with nuts 10 sisting of a middle part forming an inverted adapted to connect the laterally projecting U, legs extending upwards from the sides ends of said plates with each other so as to of said middle part, and horizontal flanges secure the emergency bearing to said bearextending from the upper ends of said legs ing springs. 7 to opposite directions; two pairs of trans- I p 4 verse plates adapted to be arranged below FERDINAND MEHLIS. 

